Tag Archives: futuristic

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Book Review You wouldn’t naturally assume from the title that Super Sad True Love Story is set in an extremely odd American future featuring a semi-illiterate population of status-seeking, social media-obsessed fashionistas who put the current usage of Facebook and the like to shame. Yet the title couldn’t [...]

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer Book Review It’s the third book in The Lunar Chonicles but not the end of the saga. While I was hoping for more of a resolution to the conflict at hand, it looks like we have to wait for the fourth book scheduled to be released over [...]

Legend By Marie Lu (Legend #1) Book Review The young adult dystopian genre has been sizzling with series such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, and now there is the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu. Going above and beyond the traditional fascism of a post-apocalyptic setting, the author attempts to recreate the standoff between Valjean [...]

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory Book Review The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the path to God is laced with drugs. At least, that’s the gist of Afterparty, a science-fiction version of a near future obsessed with drugs. In this story, a new drug creates a feeling of oneness with the divine. [...]

Upload by Mark McClelland Book Review Upload was chosen as one of the four winners in the adult science-fiction category of ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards in 2012. It is the first novel by Mark McClelland, a computer science professional with a soft spot for poetry. The author brings his vast knowledge of the [...]